Appleworks opening failure

AW was locking up when simple WP files were open so I decided to reinstall it. I dragged the old folder to the trash and emptied the trash. Then I reinstalled AW6 again. Repaired permissions and restarted. I also installed the AW update.
Now AW won't open at all. I get the splash screen, then a message that "The file is locked or already in use." When clicking OK (IT's NOT OK!) AW tries to continue to open for a few more seconds then shuts down with the "unexpected close" error box.
I've discarded the appleworks.plist file and repaired permissions and restarted but continue to get the error.
What file is blocking the opening sequence and how do I get it working again?
TIA

Dave and Peggy,
Thanks for the suggestions. I replaced the dock icon right after the reinstallation. I've tried opening AW from an AW file (double clicking the file) and from double clicking the application itself (Appleworks 6). Same result.
Peggy, I know about locking files and giving read and write permissions. The problem here is that I cannot tell what file it is that AW is trying to open. When I click on the application icon, it should not be trying to open any file in particular. I've deleted the "recent files" and also the com.appleworks.plist in the preferences folder. I still get the locked file error message.
Here is one hint. I had a file open and got a spinning beach ball while that file was open. It was this problem that caused me to decide to reinstall AW (AW locking up when files were open). I had used the forced quit to stop AW, then deleted AW and the plist and the recent files and reinstalled. It might be that AW is trying to open some ghost of the file that was open the last time it was running. That file is on the hard drive in the same folder and with the same name as it had before, but maybe there is a file out there somewhere that indicates it was open at the time of the lockup/force quit. Maybe THAT ghost file is what I am looking for. Cannot imagine where to look for it though.
Thanks for the help so far ... wish it had worked!

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